Camellia and Bush Warbler

Data

Camellia and Bush Warbler
Print   (Part of the set: Selected Works by Hiroshige)

Hiroshige
O-Edo Mokuhansha
0

26.80 cm
40.70 cm

2019
00003-004
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Print is Public Domain; Photography is:   Creative Commons License

Description

An uguisu (Japanese bush warbler) perches on a tsubaki (Japanese camellia) twig in this print by Hiroshige. A poem from the Wakan Roeishu ("Japanese and Chinese Verses for Recitation") appears on the right side. The original print was published around 1842–43 by Wakasaya Yoichi (also known as Jakurindo).

A paraphrase of the Chinese poem: 鶯声誘引来花下 草色拘留坐水辺 (鶯の声に誘われて花の下にやってきた。草の色に引き止められて水辺に座ったままでいる)

Attracted by the song of a bush warbler, I came under the flowering tree. I was captivated by the color of the grass and remained sitting by the waterside.

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